Oskaloosa Middle School Crowd Sourced 2017 Summer Reading List

The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It’s lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off by any other giants she would have soon become breakfast!

After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.

After his very worst school year in sixth grade, Rafe Khatchadorian thinks he has it made in seventh grade.He’s been accepted to art school in the big city and imagines a math and history free zone. Wrong!!! The new school is challenging and competitive. Be prepared for zany adventures and a little mystery on the side.

Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone are run out of their home, Boneville, and become separated in the wilds, but better fortune begins, the tree cousins reunite at a farmstead in a deep forested valley, where Fone meets a young girl named Thorn.

Hazel and Jack are best friends until an accident with a magical mirror and a run-in with a villainous queen leaves Hazel on her own at the threshold of an enchanted wood with hope to save Jack’s life.

A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches’ plot to destroy the world’s children by turning them into mice.

Inspired by interviews with real-life cancer survivors and insider sports experience, this unforgettable New York Times bestseller shows a brave boy who learns what it truly means to be unstoppable.

When orphaned Mary Lennox comes to live at her uncle’s great house on the Yorkshire Moors, she finds it full of secrets. The mansion has nearly one hundred rooms, and her uncle keeps himself locked up. At night, she hears the sound of crying down one of the long hallways. Mary discovers a locked gate leading to a secret garden and is able to find her way inside this peculiar place.

When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.

This epic adventure takes Frodo Baggins, the One Ring bearer and his trusted hobbit friends Sam, Merry and Pippin on an urgent, treacherous journey to destroy the One Ring—created and then lost by the Dark Lord, Sauron centuries earlier– a weapon of evil, one that Sauron desperately wants returned to him. With the power of the ring once again his own, the Dark Lord will unleash his wrath upon all of Middle-earth. The only way to prevent this horrible fate from becoming reality is to return the Ring to Mordor, the only place it can be destroyed.

Thirteen-year-old Savvy is six two and full of basketball talent; her three-point shot is deadly. But she is also skinny and gets pushed around on the court. Her older sister. Callie, is a freshman on varsity cheerleading, but she’s not quite light enough to be a flier-her coveted position. Both girls need to boost their level of competition to get off the bench into action. When steroids are found in Savvy’s gym bag, she claims they are not hers. Suddenly, accusations are flying and nobody knows who is telling the truth.

When thirteen-year-olds Cooper, Hiro, and Gordy witness a robbery that leaves a man in a coma, they find themselves tangled in a web of mystery and deceit that threatens their lives.

In an overpopulated world where all signs of nature have been obliterated and a wall has been erected to keep out plague-ridden animals, twelve-year-old Mika refuses to believe that his twin sister was killed after being abducted, and continues to search for her in spite of the dangers he faces in doing so.

A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery. Humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now scythes are the only ones who can end life–and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control.

Don’t call them heroes, but these six Californian teens have powers that set them apart. They can do things ordinary people can’t do. (One has a voice that will say whatever you want to hear)! This opening installment is packed with action and drama.

The stories take place in a fictional nation called Panem, somewhere in North America. They follow two main characters Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark who struggle for their personal survival and for the survival of their “home district” as they defy the cruel forces of the ruling district.

Ten-year old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunts and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.

After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents’ divorce.

When a twelve-year-old genius Artemis Fowl tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the faries fight back with magic, technology, and a particulary nasty troll.

A horse in nineteenth-century England encounters many misfortunes until he finds the happiness and contentment he deserves.

In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among the predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is and anomoly who does not fit into any one grouop, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.

When fourteen-year-old Alex is framed for murder, he becomes an inmate in the Furnace Penitentiary, where brutal inmates and sadistic guards reign, boys who disappear in the middle of the night sometimes return weirdly altered, and escape might just be possible

Sixteen-year old Mary Elizabeth’s summer job at an expensive health club turns out to be more exciting than she bargained for when a series of mysterious events culminate in murder.

As further evidence of his family’s bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yates is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.

Written in the form of interviews, reports, and journal entries, the story of three troubled teenagers ends in a tragic shooting.

Quentin Jacobson has spent a lifetime loving adventurous Margo Roth Spiegleman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life–dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge–he follows.

High school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing seven tapes recorded by his crush. Hannah Baker, who committed suicide, and spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah’s voice recounting the events leading up to her death.

After Cam’s father gives him a cardboard box for his birthday, they fashion it into a man that comes to life, but things spin out of control when a bully steals a scrap of the cardboard to create creatures that disobey his orders and multiply into an army.

Sixteen year old Malencia (Cia) Vale is chosen to participate in The Testing to attend the University; however, Cia is fearful when she figures out that her friends who do not pass The Testing are disappearing.

A prequel to the Maze Runner trilogy traces the fateful period after the earth is decimated by catastrophic solar flares and reveals the stories behind hte formation of WICKED, the construction of the Glade and Thomas’ entry in to the Maze.

Groomed by his father to be a star player, football is the only thing that has ever really mattered to Mick Johnson, who works hard for a spot on the varsity team his freshman year, then tries to hold onto his edge by using steroids, despite the consequences to his health and social life.

During the Civil War, a twelve-year-old Bowery Boy from New York City joins the Union Army as a drummer, deserts during a battle in Virginia, and encounters a hostile old mountain woman.

Abandoned by his pack, a baby wolf with a mysterious mark on his deformed paw survives and embarks on a journey that will change the world of the wolves of the Beyond.

Sixteen year old Hazel, who has cancer, meets Augustus at at kids-with-cancer support group and as they fall in love they both wonder how they will be remembered.

After moving to their ancestral home, Emily and Navin’s mother is kidnapped by a tentacled creature in the basement that leads the children on a deadly chase into the magical world below their home.

When seventh-grader Ellie, who is having best-friend problems, and eighth-grader Jack, who is under tremendous pressure from his father, switch bodies and lives, they learn a great deal about themselves and the opposite sex.

This series written by Jeff Kinney are a collection of journals of the main character, Greg Heffley, containing hand-written notes and simple drawings of Greg’s daily adventures.

When Gia Montgomery’s boyfriend, Bradley, dumps her in the parking lot of her high school prom, she has to think fast. After all,she’d been telling her friends about him for months now. This was supposed to be the night she proved he existed. So when she sees a cute guy waiting to pick up his sister, she enlists his help.

When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.

Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for “bad kids” find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth!

The Wayside School books take place on the thirteenth floor of Wayside School. The teacher, Mrs. Jewis is nice, even if she does use impractical teaching methods. Mrs. Jewis is the replacement for the old teacher, Mrs. Gorf, who was an evil teacher that would wiggle her ears and stick out her tongue to turn the students into apples!

When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.

After years in foster homes, seventeen-year-old Benson Fisher applies to New Mexico’s Maxfield Academy in hopes of securing a brighter future, but instead he finds that the school is a prison and no one is what he or she seems.

These novels tell the story of Harry Potter, a young wizard along with his friends Hermoine Granger and Ron Weasley, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Dash, Dylan, Poppy, Marcus and Azumi don’t know this at first. They each think they’ve been summoned to Shadow House for innocent reasons. But there’s nothing innocent about Shadow House. Something within its walls is wickedly wrong. Nothing–and nobody can be trusted. Hallways move. Doors vanish. Ghosts appear. Children disappear.

The series follows the adventures of four clans of wild cats in their forest and lake homes. Major themes in the series deal with adventure, the concept of nature v nurture, the reactions of different faiths meeting each other, and characters being a mix and good and bad.

When Justin’s older brother, Kyle, is killed in Afghanistan, Justin can’t believe that his brother is really gone. Except there’s one thing that Kyle left behind…Max is a highly trained military dog who has always protected his fellow soldiers. But when he loses his handler and best friend, Kyle, Max is traumatized and unable to stay in the service.

Warned away from magic all of his life, Callum endeavors to fail the trials that would admit him to the Magisterium only to be drawn into its ranks against his will and forced to confront dark elements from his past.

It’s been a century of peace since Earth became a colony of an alien race with far reaches into the galaxy. Some die-hard extremists still oppose alien rule on Earth, but Donovan Reyes isn’t one of them. His dad holds the prestigious position of Prime Liaison in the government, and Donovan’s high school standing along with is exocel (a remarkable alien technology fused to his body) guarantee him a bright future in the security forces. That is, until a routine patrol goes awry and Donovan’s abducted by the human revolutionary group Sapience.

After the death of their parents the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune.

A troublesome twelve-year-old orphan,staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her.

Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer’s Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.

Brooklyn can’t sleep. Her boyfriend, Lucca, died only a year ago, and now her friend Gabe has just died of an overdose. Every time she closes her eyes, Gabe’s ghost is there waiting for her. She has no idea what he wants or why it isn’t Lucca visiting her dreams.

Follow the thrilling adventures of Sakura, a fourth grader who accidentally finds an enchanted book called The Clow. The book once contained a set of magical Clow cards but they all escaped while the guardian of the book fell asleep. Now, Sakura is thrust into a mystical journey to capture all the cards before they wreak chaos and destruction.